Customers Arrive According to a Poisson Distribution

question 6

Multiple Choice

Customers arrive according to a Poisson distribution. The average number of customer arrivals per hour is six. The probability that four customers will arrive in the next three hours is:

• A) less than or equal to 0.01.
• B) greater than 0.01 but less than or equal to 0.02.
• C) greater than 0.02 but less than or equal to 0.03.
• D) greater than 0.03.

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